Featuring articles written by ELC staff and professionals from across Canada, the ELC Spotlight
is a place to learn about emerging and ongoing public interest environmental law issues.
With support from the Environmental Law Centre, Ng Ariss Fong, and ELC Club fundraising efforts, students travelled once again in 2024 to the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon. This year, the conference honoured former ELC >
Student enviro-volunteerism was on display again this year for the 7th annual Research-a-thon. The Research-a-thon is a one-day event where students gather to generate research that supports public interest environmental law in BC and Canada. The goal of this year’s >
After a three-year hiatus, ELC staff and Club members travelled to Eugene, Oregon in early March for the 41st annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC). The largest of its kind, PIELC attracts 3,000+ lawyers, students, activists, scientists, policy makers, >
As a screen projected the sight and sounds of a gurgling river and researchers dove into their work, the DDR (Dispute Resolution Room and formerly known as the Moot Courtroom) was literally flowing with student energy at the 6th annual >
In case you haven’t heard, things are changing around the Law Faculty with renovations and the building of the National Centre for Indigenous Law building, where the ELC will have offices. Over the next while, we’ll share behind-the-scenes photos so >
Good News Stories: Celebrating Positive Changes in Environmental Law As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration, we’re sharing a series of Good News Stories that were inspired by the 2021 Research-a-thon. The goal of Research-a-thon 2021 was to share stories >
Good News Stories: Celebrating Positive Changes in Environmental Law As part of our 25th Anniversary celebration, we’re sharing a series of Good News Stories that were inspired by the 2021 Research-a-thon. The goal of Research-a-thon 2021 was to share stories >
The amount of land we’re talking about is equivalent to a line of football fields stretched from Victoria to Nova Scotia. Ray Zimmerman, Sea-to-Sea Greenbelt Society In early 2021, the Environmental Law Centre (ELC) and the Sea-to-Sea Greenbelt Society (Sea-to-Sea) >
This story is the second in a series we’re sharing in 2021 to mark the ELC’s 25th anniversary [ICYMI, our first flashback is here]. We’ll take this time to reflect on milestones and appreciate work done in the past that >